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Coping with Seasonal Depression: As the Days Get Shorter
Understanding how the changing seasons impact our mental health is key to finding ways to cope during this time of year.
Parenting with Presence: The Power of Mindfulness in Raising Children
While integrating mindfulness into your life won’t take care tasks off your plate, it can help you reduce stress, enabling you to parent more intentionally.
Mindful Retreat: Self-Care Journey
Self-care isn't just a trendy word, it's an important habit that makes a big difference in our mental, social, and physical health.
How a Therapist Can Support Your Coming Out Process
Coming out can be a difficult process for many members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, and no coming out experience is the same.
Finding Resilience after Heartbreak
Most of us consider the end of a romantic relationship as a failure. As women, in our roles as partners in a relationship, we frequently take on responsibility for the break-up, separation, or divorce and see it as failing ourselves or others.
What Does it Mean to Live Authentically? Identifying Values to Live an Authentic Life
You may have heard the buzz term living in your truth or living an authentic life, but what does that truly mean and how does one do that?
Whole Person Supervision by Jillian Papineau, Ph.D., RP
Clinical supervisors often face the challenge of balancing professional boundaries with the goal of connecting to their supervisees as their authentic selves. How do you model openness, integrity, and trust without compromising professionalism?
Healthy Coping Mechanisms for Anxiety
Coping mechanisms are an extremely important aspect of overcoming and managing feelings of anxiety. In many cases, adapting healthy coping mechanisms can help an individual address a situation that entices anxious thoughts and feelings, while helping them act proactively when handling the situation.
What Can YOU Do For Your Mental Health
Taking care of our mental health is really important, however, it can sometimes be challenging to figure out how to do it. Establishing a good routine, and identifying things that work for us, is the first step to mental wellbeing.
Sense of Self and Self Esteem
What defines our sense of self? Have you ever thought about the aspects of yourself that truly make you who you are? We often associate our identity to the things we can observe on the surface; our appearance, our name, our age, sex and culture.
Tips for Combating Seasonal Affective Disorder
As the summer begins to wind down and school resumes once more for another year of learning, many of us may start to feel a shift in our moods and productivity, which is commonly referred to as Seasonal Affective Disorder.
The Healing Power of Journaling
As a kid, I cherished my diary. It was my sanctuary, a place where I could pour out my deepest fears and biggest dreams without judgement.
Why Spirituality Can Still Matter in Therapy - Even If You’re Not Religious
Although we typically assume that therapy is focused only on mental and emotional health, the exploration of spiritual identity can be immensely valuable in the therapeutic process.
Stressy or Depressy: What a Therapist Wants You to Know About Starting Therapy
The fact that you’re reading a blog post about this topic could mean you (or someone you know) is struggling with this strange and challenging and sometimes super bummer thing we call life.
From Betrayal to Healing: How to Rebuild Trust After an Affair
Trust is the main foundation of any strong relationship, and when it’s shattered by an affair, it can feel like the ground has been pulled out from under you
Strategies for Managing Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria
Feelings of rejection are inherently complex. There are countless situations with the potential to make us feel rejected, and these feelings of rejection manifest differently from person to person.
5 Ways to Make Journaling Easier and The Benefits!
Learning to express one’s thoughts and emotions has been one of the main components of therapy dating back to its creation. However, often we may feel challenged or hesitant to express our emotions, especially when we do not know how to or struggle to find a positive way to do so.
The Impact of Physical Exercise on Trauma Recovery
Trauma impacts our physical, mental, and emotional health. It's lasting and beyond what it seems from the outside. Usually, with trauma, there are certain traditional approaches, which often include therapy and medication.
Finding Humour in Healing
Laughter is one of the most profound ways to connect and bond with others, but surprisingly the benefits of laughter can also be extended to therapy sessions!
The Duality of Change: Managing Grief
The only constant in life is change. Therefore, to be human is to experience grief, even in the face of positive change. Change refers to becoming or experiencing something new or different.